Dad's Shed is where i go to use the tools and equipment to 'Make Things'.... Here dad makes or repairs bit and pieces and make model steam locomotives and, more usually, tools for the tools to make things! Welding, Brazing, Heat Treatment, Turning, Milling, Grinding etc
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Very nice work. The mill seems good.
Many thanks - yes it's a lovely piece of kit - but I'm working it to it's absolute limits of travel on this little job!
Very nice work sir
Thanks very much!! Hope you enjoyed it!
Hello sir. If I may, what is the kilowatt rating of your inverter that powers your Colchester lathe? Also, what is the kilowatt size of the two-speed Colchester spindle motor? Thank you.
Hi, the inverter actually powers all the machines in the shed, not just the lathe. It has a rating of 7.5 HP (5.5Kw). the Colchester has a 2 speed motor which on the high speed setting pulls 2hp (1.5Kw) The inverter is also set up so that it puts out 440v so that no modification is necessary to industrial machines. All my machines just plug into 5 pin 3 phase sockets on the wall.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks very much, glad you liked it!
Very interesting, I have a Tom Senior M1. Courtly tell me what you x and I travel is please. According to Lathe UK the x travel is 15" but mine is only 12". Like your old shed in restricted in night so I can't fit a Bridgport in so i.e. looking for an S1 head but they are like horse sh#t, so I'll have to continue with the knucklehead. I'm we to tourists buried up the good work. Cheers Clive Hiscock
Superb precision work, with a bit of luck on that internal thread! Excellent fit! Phil
Thank you very much! I'd say a LOT of luck on the internal thread with the QCTP loosening off.......
@@DadsShed-om4lz im old school, no such luxuries as qctp for me! Phil (phil whitley on YT)
I could not understand what was going on, sorry, I assumed that you would be running the leadscrew away from the chuck with the chuck rotating in its normal way. Understandable given that I have an ML7-R. I live & learn as one says!
OK. i'd set the lathe up to turn a right hand thread in the normal way, but I put a tool upside down in the toolholder and ran the lathe backwards, which then included turning the leadscrew in the opposite direction too (although is was set up for 'normal' rotation) (Not always possible on the Myford lathes unless you have a lock on the chuck/spindle interface to stop it unscrewing) So, everything set up as 'normal' but the tool upside down to cut when the lathe spindle was turning backwards and that then also took the tool out and away from the chuck. It looks like cutting a left hand thread, but because the lathe's running backwards it's cutting a right hand thread.... Means I didn't have to try and stop the cut in less than 1/8th inch and could run the lathe much faster too. The internal thread in the Part 2 of the video was done at 510 rpm working the exact same way.
You have your x and y mixed up in out is y and left to right is x.
well spotted - thanks for pointing that out!! I'll try and remember that in the future!
Excellent work sir!
Thank you kindly! I hope people find it of interest and maybe helpful!
Well thought out young man!
Young man..... I like that, but you might care to go to Specsavers!!!
I made a harsh decision and got rid of a lot of stuff I had collected over the years , I feel far better for it
yes... but every time I have got rid of something, i then find i wanted it!!
@@DadsShed-om4lz I found that I had just bought it to make life easier when there was already a way before.
Lovely work! Looks to be very useful!
Thanks for that, yes it's great - thanks to Brandon for sparking the idea!
I use a slip stack under the nuts on the thumbwheel stops
good tip - I do a similar thing on the lathe and mill. But with this, I can just hit zero and then advance to the depth I need. If it's repetition I'd then set the stop after the first hole so I don't need to keep looking at the readout.
Excellent mod! I clicked on the thumbs up like button, but it stayed at zero? YT up to their oldtricks again!!
Thanks for that. Yes, simple mod but should be very useful in getting things like accurate hole depth! glad you found it interesting!
Keep up the great work.
Lovely seeing you keeping that little lathe alive! As a machine fanatic and a physics lunatic, i always enjoy seeing people who love machines and do their best to allow the machine to outlive the operator and end up in better state than when first adopted... Nice work at any rate, and nice surface finish from that lathe aswell... All the best and kindest regards! Steuss
Really enjoyed your video
Many thanks!! It was great to get back out to the shed again!!
My instructor would have banned me from the shop for all that swarf on the chuck
don't blame him! I thought I cleaned it away, but brain fade meant I'd only pushed it down and a single stray piece picked it all up!! Made me jump a bit I can assure you. But, it was so tightly wound around the chuck jaws it wasn't moving so I waited until I'd finished the last few cuts to clear it out with pliers!
Hell of a rat's nest you've got there.
Yes, reminder to actually clear all the ribbons of swarf when working near the 4 jaw!!
Hey Dad aren't safety glasses overkill, versus a safety monocle. I hear there half price. Can you order one contact? Sorry but the Elephant in the room made me say it. Excellent job.
Safety monocles are horrendously expensive - I've had my eye open for them for some time........ Plus the parrot much prefers the glasses!!
Damn, I forgot about the parrot, good point @@DadsShed-om4lz
Great work, that a pretty solid undertaking
Thanks! I'll be happy to see it done- there a lot to the damn thing and quite a few processes that are very new to me too!
Are you able to give me an email address to contact you directly please. I put up a very long and constructive comment here this morning, but I now see that it has been removed for some unknown reason. Thanks. Regards from Australia.
[email protected]
As an aside, your diction and the recording setup in your shop seem like a good facsimile of those lovely war-era documentaries. That might be a valuable thing.
Well, thank you for that!! I do try and make sure I speak clearly and understandably, hopefully I've succeeded!
Brilliant! Loved every minute of it! Phil
Thank you very much!
@@DadsShed-om4lz is that a Harrison h mill you have? I have one, but managed to find a v head for it (unbelievably!)
Hi, No, not a Harrison, Its a Tom Senior. you can get vertical heads for them (occasionally), but they are slightly strange and only have a 2 Morse taper spindle, and I wanted something a but beefier!
I have been into model engineering for over 35 years and in engineering as an occupation, but I have never seen any use for cnc in the home workshop.
I initially got it as a project, I also had some parts for a Gresley coach I'd been asked to manufacture which had multiple curves (the originals had been brass pressings). It was actually simpler to write the code, check the first part and then just repeat 24 times...... I've also used it for cutting tapers on things like an INT30 adaptor and morse taper arbors. Yes, I could do it on the manual lathe, and on another lathe (an Atlas) i've had, I made a taper turning attachment which made it easy. Just having it sitting there, I thought, well, why not........ I do like a challenge and I need to keep up to date with Cad etc, so it sort of made sense.
Well gee, if you've never seen a use for it then I guess it's no good for anyone right?
@@guitarchitecturalsomeone call up all CNC companies that make home shop machines and tell them to knock it off. Union sees no use for one so quit making them.
@@Impuritan1 call the local TV station! "Grumpy Old man decries technology, news at 11!" 😆😆
I disagree... I started as an enthusiast when i was 12 essentially, having first laid eyes on a lathe online, over 15 years ago... I never hoped to have a single machine, but i studied and studied with fanatical devotion everything that one could find about machines, machining and most fields related... 5 years ago, or a bit longer, i got my first machine, and now i have 15 machines and need a new shop, as i sardine canned my shop with massive machines due to acts of God... I thought that i would never even consider a cnc machine, who needs that, that`s a production machine for large scale productions... Now, having had developed a teacher`s level of theory knowledge and some skill in practice, i am starting to see the immense value in CNC... Now, what is my home shop is by far much more than most model home shop machine-rooms are, and sure, my interests and projects may differ, but having say a cnc lathe allows you to program in a part of disgusting complexity, and have the machine make a part that you otherwise could make, but would take hell of a lot of time to do, or you wouldn`t even be able to make it... A cnc mill is also a machine that can make parts that a manual machine can not really... Don`t get me wrong, out of 15 machines, 13 are manual and will remain so, but 2 are automatic lathes that i plan on converting to cnc... There is simply so much stuff that a cnc machine can do for you if you take care of her properly, that it`s hard not to appreciate them and their immense capacity to perform certain types of work... I never plan on turning my shop into a large production shop, i will make precision parts and sell some occasionally to make up for the costs of running those machines and keeping them well maintained, but it will be a home shop nonetheless, maybe on a larger scale, but if you have ridiculous ideas and projects, a cnc machine can offer a great deal and be as valuable as a manual machine when it comes to parts making... Only in industry do they really outshine the manuals due to their ability to spit out parts in ridiculous amounts, but in the home shop, they are merely a counterpart to manual machines... I mean, at around 13:50 to 14:00, you get the same thing explained with a short example... It`s the adaptability of a numeric pathing that allows you to produce very complex parts that would require dedicated setups of tooling and ancillaries like the compound, which cnc just bypasses with inhuman ability to generate any pathing of the appropriate tooling, just by moving more than one axis with near perfect accuracy... All the best and kind regards! Steuss
I look forward to seeing this come together; a similar thing scaled down to my little mill would be handy for putting centers in stock for the lathe.
to be honest, not half as much as I do !! Its taking an inordinately long time fitted in between work and other 'stuff' the wife deems more important! :-)
Absolutely brilliant video
Glad you enjoyed it, hope you find the others interesting too!
Nice work. Very much mirrors what I'm doing. The spur gear bit seems like a lot of buggering about, though, why not just have a bevel gear "facing up" on the spindle (this is what I'm doing)?
the reason is that the Senior doesn't have a reversing spindle (if it did the table feed wouldn't be able to knock off) and without the intermediate gear the cutter in the vertical spindle would be rotating in the wrong direction. bit more faffing about, but it also means that the spindle is quite beefy and the nose end is close to the main support line from the horizontal section so should also be a bit more rigid.
@@DadsShed-om4lz What I'm trying to say, probably very ineptly, is that by placing the bevel gear on the vertical spindle either above or below the driving gear on the horizontal spindle, the driven spindle direction is reversed. In my case, with a horizontal spindle that rotates anticlockwise, placing the bevel gear facing "up" on the vertical spindle will make the spindle rotate "naturally" for drills and facemills. Placing the gear above the driving gear, facing down, would result in a reversed vertical spindle.
Very nice channel. Just discovered you
Thanks very much and welcome, hope you like some of the older ones too!
Great video, throughly enjoyed it.
Brilliant - glad you liked it and thanks for letting me know!
Good job! You can buy or make a tailstock set over center you can adjust but the problem is with that is you have to set the cutting tool a long way out from the tool post otherwise it will foul on the slide fixture.
Glad you liked it. I do (occasionally) use a boring head with a centre in it to taper turn. I really must make a proper taper turning attachment for the lathe! - Oh, another little project....
Absolutely brilliant video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Getting there slowly. What is your Loco and gauge ❓ I built Martin Evans Caribou in 3 1/2” Have not run it since 1996. I got it out to see how it was storing in around 2006 and found my regulator also stuck. Stripped and cleaned it. Bench ran it on air and found several ball clacks sticks from lack of use. I have always ran it using de ionised water to stop any boiler build up. Easy at the time as it was readily available from where I worked. Regards from Australia.
Hi. Its from the same 'stable' as Caribou funnily enough, it's Martin Evan's 5" gauge 'Springbok'. Yes, sitting around doesn't help steam loco's (of any size!)
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Very nice video my friend. I'm from England so where do you live? I have been living in Thailand for the past 18 years now but my wife and I hope to move soon to the north of Thailand and my plan is to set up a small workshop with air conditioning hopefully. I had a Myford Super 7 B back in Beckenham where I used to live but I sold it before I came to Thailand. I miss this work so much.
In Peterborough now, I was in Addington when I started. Worked in Elmers End.......
I worked at Muirheads before I got a job in the print at Fleet Street as a fitter until there was a big strike then ended up working at Fords in Purley way Croydon @@DadsShed-om4lz
Just found your channel. Your are a man after my own heart. I live in my shed, on the south coast, building radio controlled model boats, including live steam ones. Have been known to venture back up the garden to the house, just the show that I am still alive. Looking forward to your future videos.
"... and blood rusts tools" - you got me! Subscribed (and banned my kids from my workshop)
Just an observation, I never noticed whether or not you locked the saddle before you started turning the taper. If during the process the saddle backs off slightly, the bore will not be correct.
Very true that, I don't often turn taper from the top slide and haven't had that problem, but I'll remember it for the future! Thanks - every day's a school day!
Quick comment. The drive blocks do not need to be hardened. If the holder is fully tightened in the spindle there is very little chance of the holder moving, the blocks are there to stop rotation should there happen to be any slippage. Sometimes I remove my blocks when I have to use a Int 30 tool that has no drive slots milled into it. Regards from Australia.
Thanks for that input - it will save some work!! Hope you enjoy it.
Just found this channel and subscribed after 2 minutes, great content 👍 looking forward to seeing more
Hi! Interesting to hear you talking about building a shed. I am in the process of building a workshop in my back garden of 30m2. I am allowed over here to build planning free up to 3m high which I did. I started by welding 3, how do you call this, 2 legs and a bolted on horizontal girder. One for each outside and on in the middle. I use the steel frame to carry the roof and walls plus it gives me the option to install a simple gantry crane. All the walls and the roof are going to be fully insulated.
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Hi.I like the norm reference.
I loved NYW, he was a great communicator and his lightweight comment about 'shop safety' has always stuck with me.
I don't get what you mean by you've been told you can't do something at around 14:00. Something to do with the frequency inverter? Not sure what "they" mean will happen if you do it that way. Cook your inverter or something?
Facebook and other communications have people who keep saying that you can't run multiple machines, or two speed motors off of an inverter, you have to have a rotary converter. My inverter system runs the entire workshop , and the speed change on the motor is what the Facebook experts keep saying can't be done! Just saying to people that it can be done!
Nice work. Great idea. Thanks for sharing. Just subscribed to your channel. Have a great day.
Thanks, I am a newbie to the hobby, appreciate the simple clear explanations.
Nice. You're making basically the same thing as me, it seems, although I've got the entire head to construct. My plan was to bore the spindle on the lathe, but cut (and grind) the 30 taper with the spindle in place on the machine. I might rough the taper on the lathe, though. Glad the drilling op worked out for you. Deep bore drilling is always fraught, I'd probably have done the deep hole first and cut the taper later. My order of ops would have been : - get the part centred and fully supported - get an undersized centred hole in the end, pretty much as deep as I could go with a standard drill, and large enough to get a boring bar into - bore that hole out to the nominal of the long drill - deep drill, using the bored hole to support a large part of the drill absolutely dead straight and stop any wandering. Obviously this reduces chip clearing space, so the drilling op will involve more, and shorter "pecks". - cut the taper. I love the mastic nozzle on the blowgun. Top bodgery!
Thanks for the positive comment ! yep, I'm making the complete head too........ I didn't actually do this the way I'd planned - that would have had me do the through hole and taper first, then make an INT30 mandrel and then turn the outside diameters... - but I chickened out this time (and I didn't have the material I needed for the mandrel etc,,)
@@DadsShed-om4lz Are you making a separately powered head, a la bridgeport, or powering from the horizontal spindle? I'm going for the latter, but it's a helluva lot more complicated.
I just found your channel once I saw the intro I said here's a guy I like....
Keep up the great work.
Quality workmanship Quality video